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Assignment #1 - 6/13/09

I was not surprised to find that, according to Gardner's Multiple Intelligences test, my two highest scores were the interpersonal and logical-mathematical intelligences. I am a very social person and enjoy having opportunities to engage in cooperative learning and to collaborate with others in my work area. I look forward to situations that allow me to meet knew people and I thoroughly enjoy learning about new people. I also enjoy having time to myself and time to reflect on my own life, but for the majority I am definitely an interpersonal person and love being in social settings. I also was not surprised to find that one of my highest scores was the logical-mathematical intelligence because I am fascinated by numbers. Math computation has always been a strength for me and I have always enjoyed math and numbers. I have a difficult time with geometry and spatial senses, but I like patterns and numbers. It also made sense to me that spatial-visual was my lowest score because I have an extremely difficult time reading maps or putting things together by looking at a diagram. I was also not surprised that the musical intelligence was one of my lower scores because although I do enjoy listening to music and pretending I have a good voice to sing along to the music with, I have always had a hard time in any musical class where we were required to read music and understand notes. I am inspired by people who have the ability to read, write and sing music and know that this is a gift that I was not born with.

The VAK test identified that my strength is in the bodily-kinesthetic/physical area. This made perfect sense to me because I have been very active in athletics my entire life. I enjoy being active and trying new things in order to learn how to do them. I feel as though I learn best by actually doing something rather then hearing or reading about it. I need to be able to do something in order to be successful with it. My lowest score on this test was the visual category and I can understand this because I have a difficult time understanding concepts and tasks when they are only presented to me visually. I need items to be presented in an auditory way as well or to be able to try the new task out for myself.